Sunni Lynn

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When the day came for Sunni Lynn to choose an instrument to play in the school band, she steered away from the flutes, clarinets and other traditional choices of most girls her age. Instead, she laid hands on a shiny gold saxophone, a selection that befittingly was as unique as Sunni herself.

Since then, the 15-year-old Pigeon Forge, Tennessee native has never looked back, immersing herself into her music with a devotion that has taken her from novice to seasoned performer in an amazingly short period of time. Along the way, she has gained valuable experience as an artist, quickly moving beyond school band concerts to talent competitions and pageants, live television programs and even the recording studio.

One only has to look at Sunni’s family tree to realize that she came by her love of music honest, as they say in the hills of East Tennessee. Her grandfather, Georgia entrepreneur Mike L. Moon, was once the owner and promoter of gospel music’s legendary Stamps Quartet. Her mother, Lynn Moon McAllister, worked as a country vocalist at Opryland USA, fronted and sang back-up for artists like Vern Gosdin, and lived every singer’s dream by performing on the Grand Ole Opry stage with Roy Acuff.

Those potent genes were passed on to Sunni, who grew up in a household where the musical throw-downs of family get-togethers were more of an influence than the droning of mind-numbing television. And it wasn’t unusual for the little girl to crawl up in her mother’s lap at the piano or to accompany her to the taping of a gospel music TV program, in each case soaking up all the sights and sounds.

By the age of 5, however, Sunni’s own musical personality was starting to take shape; to the amazement of her country-and-gospel-rooted kinfolk, she began showing an interest in Big Band and swing music, genres that hit their peak generations before her time. Even as she got older, and the music of her preteen peers began competing for attention, Sunni chose Glen Miller, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra over Britney Spears and Carrie Underwood.

It was her attraction to the brassy sound of the Big Band era, as well as the Nashville sound of Boots Randolph and Ace Cannon that led Sunni to choose the saxophone over all the other instruments. And like everything else she has attempted in her short life, she has put her whole heart into it, insisting on becoming the best she can be thanks to ongoing private instruction and an eagerness to perform in virtually any setting.

In fact, you can catch Sunni Lynn in action when she takes the stage at the TCB Theatre, which is in its third season at the family’s Elvis Museum in Pigeon Forge.

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